Borrowing your graphic, with apologies, it just struck me that Madame DeFarge, aka Hitlery, aka Broomhildabeast, appears to be drunk.
Do you suppose that's why the hired hep around the White House weren't allowed to look into her face?
I always assumed that the reason was that, like one who gazed upon Medusa, one glimpse and the glimpsor would be turned into stone.